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Decoding the Ford Vehicle Order Card and the Shelby VIN for the 1967 Shelby Convertible

The Vehicle Order Images are held by
the Marti Auto Works (custodian of the FoMoCo database and other
historical Ford records). The following is a sample of a Ford Motor
Company Vehicle Order Card (IBM 80-column punch card), which would have
been how the record was entered into Ford's IBM 704 data processing
system.
The computer punch card is divided into 80 columns and 12 rows. This is
a 1967 Ford Passenger Car Basic Broadcast Card
(revised May-66) 655372-0 BSC.
The 80 columns are labeled along the bottom of the card, while the last
10 rows are shown along the right-hand edge of the card.

The above '67 FoMoCo punch card includes
a printed legend allowing for an easy decode:

Axle SelectDSO 2512 for the convertible itemizes a 3.25:1 axle ratio with 9.00
ring gear and
31 spline axle. This is not a pre-defined value on the vehicle order
card.

Tire Size
With the exception of the cars ordered with steel wheels, all other
1967 DSOs itemized the wheels, tires,
and lug nuts as
"customer supplied." Specific itemizations on the DSO override the
standard values on the VOC, so
this value would be irrelevant to cars equipped with the 15" 1007-A Kelsy-Hayes Magstar
or Shelby Aluminum 10-spoke wheels.